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Healthcare

Our health care lawyers are passionate about the industry and have decades of experience advising for-profit and non-profit providers, insurers, biotechnology companies and other clients facing complex legal, regulatory and business issues. Well known for our industry knowledge, experience, quality, integrity and advocacy, our team is tightly knit, deeply experienced, and capable of deploying the right resources to assist you in a highly efficient and cost-effective manner.

The health care practice at Shipman has been ranked in Band 1 by Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2022, the nation’s preeminent guide to law firms and individual lawyers.

For more than 75 years, we have provided informed, proactive representation to hospitals, academic medical centers, hospital systems, integrated health networks, community-based providers, behavioral health agencies, substance-use disorder providers, federally qualified health centers, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, life-science companies, retail pharmacies and insurers.

Corporate compliance is the cornerstone of our health law practice. With our vast experience, we work with clients to develop and implement risk-management programs and guidance that help create an effective compliance culture. From conducting Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute audits and analyses, to helping align compliance and business strategies, we regularly advise on the full range of federal and state regulatory matters.

Higher education

Faculty Collective Bargaining Agreement for State University Health Center

State University Health Center

Negotiated collective bargaining agreement for faculty members at state university health center.

Counsel Client in Launch of National Training Program

Advise client in navigating the launch of a national medical assistant training program, including the opening of a number of private occupational schools in Connecticut and Colorado.

General

Proposed Sale of Rhode Island Healthcare System

Our team of healthcare regulatory, corporate and litigation lawyers represented the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General (RIAG) with respect to an application under “The Hospital Conversions Act” seeking approval for Prospect Medical Holdings to sell a health care system that includes two community hospitals: Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital to the Centurion Foundation, a private non-profit foundation. As outside regulatory counsel, Shipman provided the RIAG with advice related to the proposed material transaction.

Recent Large Bankruptcy Cases

Represented trade creditors and lessors in some of the largest bankruptcy cases in the last few years, including In re Rite Aid Corp. (Bankr. D.N.J. filed 2023); Endo International plc (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. filed 2022); Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (Bankr. D.N.J. filed 2023); and In re Mallinckrodt plc (Banrk. D. Del. filed 2020).

Acquisition and Land Use Approvals for Federally Qualified Health Center

Represented Federally Qualified Health Center in the acquisition and development of real property in downtown Winsted, Connecticut, enabling the client to expand and meet the growing need of the medically-underserved living in the area so that they may have access to quality, affordable and comprehensive primary and preventive health services. The Center will serve a racially and economically diverse population, many of whom have limited employment, transportation, housing and financial resources by adding additional exam rooms, providers, support staff, and equipment in a convenient location, dramatically reducing the number of adults who have no care, or have delayed or not sought care. Over the course of eighteen months, our team handled the negotiation of the purchase transaction, related land use approvals including the successful appeal of a denial by the local planning and zoning commission, as well as related historic, regulatory and environmental matters, allowing for closing of the transaction in early 2018.

Settlement Achieved in Qui Tam Action

Behavioral Health Provider

Successfully represented a large Connecticut behavioral health provider in a false claims whistleblower action brought by two former employees. The qui tam lawsuit alleged that the client and its former CEO violated the state and federal False Claims Acts by not meeting some documentation requirements of its provider agreement with the state Medicaid program.

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